Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last of the Oakland A's Moustache Gang, Billy North, followed with a high chop over Graig Nettles's head at third. Roy White fielded the ball cleanly in left, but North simply beat his weak throw to second as two runs scored. Lee Lacy then drove home the tenth Dodger run with a single to left...
With time running out in the first half of Saturday's game, while you were probably trying to outrace everyone else to the concessions stands, the Harvard offence drove 47 yards in 47 seconds...
Remarks like that clearly make some traditional dowsers a bit uneasy. Robert Monicol drove in his camper all the way from Mesa, Ariz., not because he is interested in "all this psychic stuff' but because "I want to improve myself in my hobby-treasure hunting." A splendidly coiffed blond commodities broker from New York City allows that dowsing helps her cope with, if not actually predict, a fickle market. Ira Denbar, a young mailorder and advertising man from Providence, is trying to shake off the painful effects of a divorce. "Dowsing helps me keep my head together," he says...
...carefully studied scale drawings of the Court of Flags at Los Angeles City Hall and memorized the schedule of police patrols. Then with the timing of a terrorist bomber, he drove up to the plaza in a truck on Labor Day morning, and with four friends unloaded a 3,000-lb., 13-ft. turquoise object that looks something like a huge tuning fork. Wrapped in yellow paper, the untitled work was an unsolicited gift from Wade Cornell, 32, self-styled "guerrilla artist" who boasts: "I give to the people directly...
...this will mean not only slightly better mileage but higher sticker prices. Citing, among other things, the cost of making their cars more fuel-efficient, the Big Three have raised their prices about 4% as the new model-year begins, and further hikes may be ahead. Inflation long ago drove the automakers to abandon single-shot increases for an entire model-year. Now the hikes come in bits and pieces. Ford's Mustang, for example, increased in price 14% from the start of the '78 model-year to now. The average price of a U.S.-made car, including...